Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Abstract

• An original translation of Bai Xianyong’s “Wandering Through a Garden, Waking from a Dream” along with an introduction to the author as well as a note on translation. “Wandering through a Garden, Waking from a Dream” describes a gathering of former Kun Opera singers ten years after the nationalist army’s retreat to Taiwan. The story depicts the alienation of mainlanders exiled to Taiwan through the psychology of Madam Qian, a former Kun Opera star, as she struggles to reconcile her past in Nanjing with her present in Taiwan. Amid the merriment of the night, “Wandering through a Garden, Waking from a Dream” depicts the struggles of a woman pulled from the social expectations of the mainland’s high society amidst the whirling performances of Kun Opera.

Creator

• Brown, Morgan

Date Awarded

• 2015-01-01

Academic Affiliation

• Chinese

Advisor

• Stuckey, Andrew

Committee Member

• Richter, Matthias L.
• Nakassis, Dimitri

Granting Institution

• University of Colorado Boulder

Subject

• Taiwan
• Chinese
• Bai Xianyong
• Translation
• Kun Opera

Last Modified

• 2019-12-02

Resource Type

• Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Rights Statement

• In Copyright

Language

• English [eng]

Relationships

In Collection:

• Arts and Sciences Honors Program

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